Mitt Romney

I rise out of great concern for our military, for its readiness in a time of great peril but also out of concern for the men and women who are being held up and whose careers and prospects and families and plans are being interrupted by…

this policy is a failure and has to change.

We cannot raise the economy of Latin America to a level that people do not want to come here.

It seems to be that we have gone from pillar to post, guardrail to guardrail, from being aggressive and oppositional at one hand to writing love letters on the other.

this policy is a failure and has to change.

I would underscore the significance of the years--70 years--as an anniversary of the Korean War.

I would underscore the significance of the years--70 years--as an anniversary of the Korean War.

I recognize--we all do--that the South Korean War--the Korean War was, rather, at the outset of the Cold War.

We think we can solve the problems of health, of food, of energy, the list goes on and on.

It is hard to imagine a place which is more technologically advanced than South Korea.

We think we can solve the problems of health, of food, of energy, the list goes on and on.

We need to start building this in steps.

At the same time, North Korea has become, at least in my view, more belligerent and more malevolent in the last year or two.

I think that is the fundamental problem with our approach today is that we still continue to hold on to this notion that we can--that we have time.

We need to start building this in steps.

It is hard to imagine a place which is more technologically advanced than South Korea.

We need to consider something to deter further missile testing and we do not have anything that is doing that right now.

Spending money around the world to alleviate things that we wish would go away, but we are never going to get there, would only make sense, in my view, if it has a strategic significance for us.

We need to consider something to deter further missile testing and we do not have anything that is doing that right now.

Spending money around the world to alleviate things that we wish would go away, but we are never going to get there, would only make sense, in my view, if it has a strategic significance for us.

I think that is the fundamental problem with our approach today is that we still continue to hold on to this notion that we can--that we have time.

It seems to be that we have gone from pillar to post, guardrail to guardrail, from being aggressive and oppositional at one hand to writing love letters on the other.

I believe our strategic interests and national security revolve around, if you will, China, Russia, authoritarian States versus ourselves.

We cannot raise the economy of Latin America to a level that people do not want to come here.

I think we need to understand that what we are dealing with now--the nature of the denuclearization challenge right now is not nonproliferation.